Wallace v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.

NETERER, District Judge.

This is a common-law action seeking to recover damages from the defendant for personal injuries sustained while employed on board a ship, while being repaired under authorization and contract of the defendant; it being alleged that defendant was operating such vessel as a merchant vessel. The defendant, appearing specially, moves to quash the service, alleging that the defendant is a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, that at the time of the accrual of the action the defendant was not doing business in King county or the state of…